时事热点完形填空 In China, people use the idiom loumajiao (“to reveal a horse’s foot”) to describe a situation in which a secret is revealed. There is a story behind it. There was a time that women with small feet were believed to be more 1 . Then young girls would be asked to painfully bind (捆绑) their feet to prevent them from getting 2 . Empress Ma, wife of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, 3 to bind her feet because she liked to practice martial arts (武术). So her feet grew larger than 4 women’s feet. After she became empress, Ma 5 her feet by wearing long gowns (长袍). One day, when she was sitting in a carriage near a busy street, a strong wind blew her gown up. Taken by surprise, she was not able to hide her feet 6 . Many people saw her feet and quickly 7 the word across the country. The idiom loumajiao comes from this story. However,research shows that loumajiao may have 8 come from a kind of ancient practice. The qilin is a mythical (虚构的) animal that stands for good luck. In ancient times, people would paint a “qilin skin” on a large piece of cloth and put it on a horse so that the horse would look like a qilin. 9 , the horse’s feet were hard to cover up and could easily be seen. Gradually, loumajiao came to mean “revealing a secret”. In English, the idioms “spill (泼洒) the beans” or “let the cat out of the bag” have the 10 meaning. 1．A．beautiful B．comfortable C．convenient 2．A．shorter B．smaller C．bigger 3．A．managed B．refused C．failed 4．A．another B．other C．others 5．A．hid B．showed C．hurt 6．A．on time B．by chance C．in time 7．A．copied B．spread C．gave 8．A．actually B．finally C．hardly 9．A．Also B．Instead C．However 10．A．new B．special C．same When I was in New York, I was a member of a volunteer fire company. I still remember my first fire which gave me a 11 lesson. I was the second volunteer to arrive here. The volunteer leader was talking with the homeowner, who was surely having one of the worst days of her life. At midnight, she was standing outside in the pouring rain without her shoes on, while her 12 was on fire. The other volunteer was asked to go inside the broken house and save the homeowner’s dog. The leader then waved me over. He said, “Bezos, I need you to go upstairs past the fire, and 13 this woman a pair of shoes.” To be honest, it was not exactly what I was hoping for, but I still went upstairs, past the real firefighters who were pretty close to 14 the fire at this point, into the bedroom to find a pair of shoes. Then I carried the shoes downstairs and met the other volunteer 15 the lovely dog. We took our “treasures” outside to the homeowner. Not 16 , he received much more attention than me because he had just saved the little dog’s life. A few weeks later, the company received a letter from the homeowner 17 us for saving her home. The act of 18 she noted above all others was that someone had even gotten her a pair of shoes. Here, I would offer th ... ...
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